Those danged security questions about the past

[Guest guest]

Am I the only person whose PTSD gets triggered every time I try to do some

online banking and get dragged into the past via those annoying security

questions?

What was your mother's maiden name?

What is the name of the street you grew up on?

etc etc. This morning I got fed up and emailed my bank to ask if i could

customize the questions just for me. If I can get them to work with me, then I'm

going after my credit card company too. I do online banking about 4 times a

week. It's too often to be revisitng Nada, Fada and the whole " walk of horror

down memory lane. "

Anybody else share this issue with me?

AFB

[Guest guest]

I never thought about it, but now that you mention it when given the choice I

pick security questions that have nothing to do with my childhood, such as " what

is your favorite pet's name? " That's cool if your bank or credit card company

will let you create custom security questions.

If not, you can make up some answers to use of names and places you like:

" Mother's maiden name? " Eglantine buck. " The street you grew up on? "

The Yellow Brick Road. etc.

-Annie

>

> Am I the only person whose PTSD gets triggered every time I try to do some

online banking and get dragged into the past via those annoying security

questions?

>

> What was your mother's maiden name?

> What is the name of the street you grew up on?

>

> etc etc. This morning I got fed up and emailed my bank to ask if i could

customize the questions just for me. If I can get them to work with me, then I'm

going after my credit card company too. I do online banking about 4 times a

week. It's too often to be revisitng Nada, Fada and the whole " walk of horror

down memory lane. "

>

> Anybody else share this issue with me?

> AFB

>

[Guest guest]

Not only are security questions like " Mother's maiden name? " or

" street you grew up on? " reminders of things we don't

necessarily want to be reminded of, they aren't very secure.

Finding out basic information like that is not terribly hard

when so much personal and geneological information can be found

on the internet. If a website insists that you provide answers

of that sort, you should definitely not use an answer that an

identity thief could find. Making up something, or using

something that refers to the right answer in a non-standard way

is advisable.

At 01:37 PM 04/14/2012 anuria67854 wrote:

>I never thought about it, but now that you mention it when

>given the choice I pick security questions that have nothing to

>do with my childhood, such as " what is your favorite pet's

>name? " That's cool if your bank or credit card company will

>let you create custom security questions.

>

>If not, you can make up some answers to use of names and places

>you like: " Mother's maiden name? " Eglantine buck. " The

>street you grew up on? " The Yellow Brick Road. etc.

>

>-Annie

--

Katrina

[Guest guest]

I like the idea of making up names and places in response to some of those

questions. It's actually more secure--then people can't guess it.

In a similar vein, I once was pissed at the ridiculous password

requirements of this one site, so I put down something along the lines of

F*ck_you1 (for the life of me, I can't remember the password, which is just

as well...ha.)

Maybe you can do something snarky like that to those questions?

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, anuria67854 wrote:

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>

> I never thought about it, but now that you mention it when given the

> choice I pick security questions that have nothing to do with my childhood,

> such as " what is your favorite pet's name? " That's cool if your bank or

> credit card company will let you create custom security questions.

>

> If not, you can make up some answers to use of names and places you like:

> " Mother's maiden name? " Eglantine buck. " The street you grew up on? "

> The Yellow Brick Road. etc.

>

> -Annie

>

>

> >

> > Am I the only person whose PTSD gets triggered every time I try to do

> some online banking and get dragged into the past via those annoying

> security questions?

> >

> > What was your mother's maiden name?

> > What is the name of the street you grew up on?

> >

> > etc etc. This morning I got fed up and emailed my bank to ask if i could

> customize the questions just for me. If I can get them to work with me,

> then I'm going after my credit card company too. I do online banking about

> 4 times a week. It's too often to be revisitng Nada, Fada and the whole

> " walk of horror down memory lane. "

> >

> > Anybody else share this issue with me?

> > AFB

> >

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Oh yeah those questions piss me off because, gee who would be likely to know the

answers to them besides me? I make up deliberately false answers or if the

option is there make up my own questions.

Eliza

>

> Am I the only person whose PTSD gets triggered every time I try to do some

online banking and get dragged into the past via those annoying security

questions?

>

> What was your mother's maiden name?

> What is the name of the street you grew up on?

>

> etc etc. This morning I got fed up and emailed my bank to ask if i could

customize the questions just for me. If I can get them to work with me, then I'm

going after my credit card company too. I do online banking about 4 times a

week. It's too often to be revisitng Nada, Fada and the whole " walk of horror

down memory lane. "

>

> Anybody else share this issue with me?

> AFB

>